Words Like MANSLAUGHTER

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7 definitions of manslaughter

1 The slaying of a human being; destruction of men.
2 The unlawful killing of a man, either in negligence or incidentally to the commission of some unlawful act, but without specific malice, or upon a sudden excitement of anger.
3 homicide without malice aforethought
4 The unlawful killing of one human by another without express or implied intent to do injury.
5 The killing of a human being by a human being, or of men by men; homicide; human slaughter.
6 Specifically—2. In law, the unlawful killing of another without malice either express or implied, which may be either voluntarily, upon a sudden heat, or involuntarily, but in the commission of some unlawful act. Blackstone.
7 An act of killing a human being unlawfully, but not wilfully (as opposed to murder).
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